Rise - A group for women in Broadcast
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What is Rise? Rise is a global advocacy membership organisation that supports diversity in the broadcast media technology sector. Funded and supported by industry, its goal is to ensure that there is a gender balanced and diverse workforce across the specific areas of engineering and technical operations. Why is the Rise Up Academy needed? The broadcast media technology industry is facing a severe skills shortage and is currently not able to recruit the engineering and technical talent it needs. BT Sport, Sky, Gravity Media, dB Broadcast, ITV and the BBC are amongst many broadcast companies who clearly state they need more technical and engineering talent. Rises’ recent survey, in partnership with the IABM, showed that males occupy more C’level positions, women earn significantly less money and the industry is 83% white. Furthermore, there is a declining number of students applying for Media Technology courses at University, fewer apprenticeship programmes and a lack of...
